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replaced http://serverfault.com/ with https://serverfault.com/

How should we deal with old link-only answers?

Sometimes I come across old answers with little more than a link to another site. And sometimes these answers have been upvoted multiple times.

The answer I most recently came across said only this

I believe that you could solve the problem using the ProxyPassReserve directive. You can read about it here.

I have also come across an answer which said even less

Here's a bit of information on the subject.

Given that this answer isn't useful on its own without the link, I believe it does not live up to our current standards. Is there something I should be doing when I come across such old link-only answers?

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